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visit the new version of this blog: http://dramalit.wordpress.comSat, 12 May 2012 15:53:35 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.5miscellany: nadine gordimer, death, writers with writers or writers with accountants?http://blogs.bu.edu/ilanamb/2011/06/15/miscellany-nadine-gordimer-death-writers-with-writers-or-writers-with-accountants/
http://blogs.bu.edu/ilanamb/2011/06/15/miscellany-nadine-gordimer-death-writers-with-writers-or-writers-with-accountants/#commentsWed, 15 Jun 2011 12:46:31 +0000http://blogs.bu.edu/ilanamb/?p=816“The best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.” ~ nadine gordimer

i love this quote — i love how gordimer describes writing as the most extreme of acts.

on an entirely different note:

i wonder what you guys think about writers hanging out with writers: for me, i sometimes feel driven to an almost maddening degree of self-consciousness. the dialogue feels strangely circular, and the conversation feels often more about words than about life. why is this so? how can writers break out of this prison? creative cross-fertilization, perhaps? make new painter/actor/accountant-friends? i also acknowledge and value the importance of community for the writer, because the act of writing is inherently lonely.